Ernst Toller Quotes

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• At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I…
• How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
• The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
• We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we…
• As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to…
• The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
• Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together…
• Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother…
• Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
• And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain…
• As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and…
• I saw the dead without really seeing them.
• I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
• In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
• The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of…
• After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks…
• And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
• Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
• Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in…
• Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already…

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