Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

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