Goethe

Famous quotes containing the word goethe:

“What right those who govern have to govern they don’t question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn’t concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“For precisely when concepts fail one,
Words are found at the right time.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Ingratitude is always a sign of weakness. I have never observed that accomplished people were ungrateful.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)