Georg Buchner Quotes

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

Strong, Through, Small

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

Good, Conscience, Walk

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
Georg Buchner

Revolution, Grave, Whoever

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

Love, Humanity, Ugly

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

Children, Revolution, Devours

That is a long word: forever!
Georg Buchner

Long, Word, Forever

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

Life, Sunday, Long

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg Buchner

Humanity, Slow, Strides

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
Georg Buchner

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Georg Buchner

Women, Love, Someone

Death is the most blessed dream.
Georg Buchner

Death, Blessed, Dream

Dying people often become childish.
Georg Buchner

Become, Often, Dying

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

Government, Body, Tightly

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

Love, Women, Down

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

Courage, Die, Living

Love is a peculiar thing.
Georg Buchner

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

Peace, War, Palaces

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

Freedom, Death, Breath

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

Life, Time, Death

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

Government, Liberty, Against

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

Great, Pain, Stars

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

Freedom, Hot, Fingers

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg Buchner

Strength, Virtue, Terror

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 17, 1813

Died: February 19, 1837

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