The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
Ernst Toller

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
Ernst Toller

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
Ernst Toller

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
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.
Ernst Toller

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.
Ernst Toller

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
Ernst Toller

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
Ernst Toller