Georg Buchner Quotes

• We have not made the revolution… The revolution has made us.

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• Your words smell of corpses.

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

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• We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

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• We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

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• We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

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• They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

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• There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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• The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

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• The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

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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.

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• The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

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• That is a long word: forever!

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• Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

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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.

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Georg Buchner (32)

Birth:	17th October, 1813
Death:	19th February, 1837
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Playwright, Writer

About

Karl Georg Büchner was born in Riedstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany. He was a German playwright and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He wrote several plays include: Woyzeck, Danton's Death, and Leonce and Lena. He wrote several books include: Lenz(Novella), Complete Plays and Prose, and Complete Works and Letters.

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