Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich SchillerRead
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Those who seek peace often find it, while those who create chaos typically do not.
This quote by Friedrich Schiller suggests that individuals who embody peace and cultivate tranquility in their lives are more likely to experience the benefits of peace. It implies that a peaceful demeanor and approach to life open avenues for harmony, while those who disrupt peace may ultimately find themselves in conflict or unrest.
Themes
PeaceTranquilityCalmHarmonySerenity
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a discussion on conflict resolution in community meetings.
More from Friedrich Schiller
All quotes βThere is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich SchillerRead
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Friedrich SchillerRead
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
Friedrich SchillerRead
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
Friedrich SchillerRead
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
Friedrich SchillerRead
Similar quotes
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.
Dalai LamaRead
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
The more we elevate people's lives - the more we treat people with dignity and respect and honor their rights and freedoms - the more we discourageand even preventterrorism.
Linda Thomas-GreenfieldRead
I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.
Edward SaidRead
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.
Barack ObamaRead