Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
-- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!

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