Georg Buchner Quotes
- Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
- There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
- Death is the most blessed dream.
- The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
- One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
- A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
- How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
- I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
- Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
- Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
- The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
- The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world
- The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom
- The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled
- We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end
- The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength
- The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday
- You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
- The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
- People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make…