Georg Buchner Quotes (26 quotes)

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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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„Your words smell of corpses.“
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„Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!“
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„Death is the most blessed dream.“
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„The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.“
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„The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.“
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„There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.“
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„The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.“
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„The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.“
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„I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.“
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„Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.“
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„We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.“
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„The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.“
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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 power of the people and the power of reason are one.“
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„Dying people often become childish.“
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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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„We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.“
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„Love is a peculiar thing.“
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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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Author information

Georg Buchner
Author born: October 17, 1813
Author died: February 19, 1837
Nationality: German
Author Profession: Dramatist

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