"At that moment of realization I knew that……" — Ernst Toller
"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 realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all."
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21 Quotes by Ernst Toller
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How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life…
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The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
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We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has…
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As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches…
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The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
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Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other;…
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.…
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Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
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And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I…
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As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the…
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I saw the dead without really seeing them.
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I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become…
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