Quotes by Georg Buchner - Page 1

Love is a peculiar thing.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Love Is
Peculiar
Love Love Is Thing
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The sin is in our thoughts.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Our Thoughts
Sin
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Your words smell of corpses.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Corpses
Smell
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That is a long word: forever!
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Forever
Long
Long Words
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Death is the most blessed dream.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Dream
Sympathy
Blessed
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Dying people often become childish.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Dying
People
Childish
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Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Defense
Murder
Self
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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
War
Palaces
Shack
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The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Long
Sunday
Wealthy
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Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Children
Revolution
Saturn
Like
Own
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A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Men
Conscience
Good Man
Walks
Good Man Good Man
Fast
Walk
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The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Power
People
Reason
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Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Power
Majority
Supreme Power
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You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Women
Fall
Falling In Love
Lying
Lie
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Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Men
Abyss
Looks
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Aristocracy
Breaths
Aristocrat
Breath
Rattle
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We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Made
Revolution
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I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Courage
Easier
Know How
Knows
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Graves
Halfway
Revolution
Own
Finishes
Grave
His
Whoever
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Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Cadavers
Germany
Revolution
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Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Items
Sun
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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Republic
Terror
Virtue
Weapons
Weapon
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Puppets
Strings
Unknown
Being
Only
Forces
Pulled
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The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Born
Chaos
Nothingness
World
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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Earnest
Ends
Stage
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The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Century
Humanity
Stride
Centuries
Counted
Slow
Strides
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Government
Liberty
Tyrants
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Despotism
Liberty
Revolutionary
Tyranny
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How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Doe
Needs
Up And Down
Way
Scale
Love Women Way
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Christ
Crude
Epicurean
Refined
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Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Government
Body
People
Transparent
Garment
Tightly
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They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Same
Grave
They Say
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Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Daughter
Cutting
Order
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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Casts
Fingers
Hot
Burn
Cast
Furnace
Statue
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Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Death
History
Names
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Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Humans
Life Is
Too Short
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Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Changed
Form
Infinite Beauty
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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.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Essence
Humanity
Individual
Order
Ugly
Unique
Each Individual
Low
Reach
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The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Eye
Pain
Sky
Stars
Tears
Over
Scattered
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People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Heaven
People
Unhappy
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The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Death
Blood
Clock
Fever
Lingering
Life Time Death
Life Death Time
Drop
Each
Slowly
Life Is A
Measures
Ticking
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And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Eye
Light
Tired
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The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Law
States
Welfare
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Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Arms
Blood
Gang
Oppressors
Count
Lend
Raise
Unwillingly
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The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.
Georg Buchner / Dramatist
Defense
Punishment
Self
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