Georg Buchner Quotes

• A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• Love is a peculiar thing.

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• Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body.

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• Murder begins where self-defense ends.

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• I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

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

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• Dying people often become childish.

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• Death is the most blessed dream.

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

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• That is a long word: forever!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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