All Ernst Toller Quotes
- 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… All
- 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. Bit
- The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. Filled
- 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… Acknowledge
- 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… Afraid
- The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized. Been
- 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… Each
- 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… French
- Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. Deafened
- 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… Broke
- 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… Annual
- I saw the dead without really seeing them. Dead
- 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. Dulled
- In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. Discharged
- 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… Chunk
- 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… Ask
- And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. Beat
- Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. Country
- 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… Along
- 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… Already Tried
- We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads,… Cries