Carl Friedrich Lessing

Famous quotes containing the words carl friedrich, carl and/or lessing:

    “The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.”
    —Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740–1792)

    “The millere was a stout carl for the nones;”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “You can’t be a Red if you’re married to a civil servant.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)