Kurt Tucholsky

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what…

— Kurt Tucholsky

You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

— Kurt Tucholsky

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

— Kurt Tucholsky

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

— Kurt Tucholsky

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Wie? Was? Wie?”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than…

— Kurt Tucholsky

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Sie sprach so viel, dass ihre Zuhörer davon heiser wurden.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one…

— Kurt Tucholsky

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

— Kurt Tucholsky

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage…

— Kurt Tucholsky

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Kurzes Glück kann jeder.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage…

— Kurt Tucholsky

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,

— Kurt Tucholsky

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

— Kurt Tucholsky