Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
“That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.” — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
