A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Georg Buchner

Death is the most blessed dream.
Georg Buchner

Dying people often become childish.
Georg Buchner

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
Georg Buchner

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Georg Buchner

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Georg Buchner

Love is a peculiar thing.
Georg Buchner

Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Georg Buchner

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

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner

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

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner

That is a long word: forever!
Georg Buchner

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
Georg Buchner

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

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
Georg Buchner

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg Buchner

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

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Georg Buchner