Crutches Quote by Ernst Toller

“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 lean.” quote by Ernst Toller — Download Open image

“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 lean.”

Ernst Toller

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Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

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The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

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When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

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I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

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Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

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