Georg Buchner famous quotes

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
-- Georg Buchner

#Revolution #Made

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

#Revolution #Graves #Halfway

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
-- Georg Buchner

#Power #People #Reason

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

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

#Falling In Love #Lying #Fall

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

#Sunday #Long #Wealthy

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

#Unique #Order #Essence

That is a long word: forever!
-- Georg Buchner

#Long #Forever

Dying people often become childish.
-- Georg Buchner

#People #Dying

Love is a peculiar thing.
-- Georg Buchner

#Love Is #Peculiar

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
-- Georg Buchner

#Men #Looks #Abyss

The sin is in our thoughts.
-- Georg Buchner

#Sin

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.
-- Georg Buchner

#Self #Punishment #Able

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
-- Georg Buchner

#Daughter #Cutting #Order

Freedom and ***** are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
-- Georg Buchner

#Sun

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

#Government #People #Body

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

#Hot #Fingers #Casts

Murder begins where self-defense ends.
-- Georg Buchner

#Self #Defense #Murder

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

#Doe #Needs #Way

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.
-- Georg Buchner

#Infinite #Form #Changed

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
-- Georg Buchner

#Christ #Crude #Epicurean

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder.
-- Georg Buchner

#People #Heaven #Unhappy

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

#Easier

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

#War #Palaces #Shack

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

#Children #Saturn #Revolution

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

#Government #Liberty #Revolutionary

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

#World #Chaos #Born

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

#Men #Good Man #Walks

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

#Stars #Pain #Eye

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end
-- Georg Buchner

#Ends #Stage #Earnest

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

#Republic #Weapons #Virtue

Death is the most blessed dream.
-- Georg Buchner

#Sympathy #Dream #Blessed

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

#Humanity #Century #Stride

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?
-- Georg Buchner

#Life Is #Too Short #Humans