269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Freedom requires guns.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

German diligence is actually endurance.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.