Georg Buchner

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

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

— Georg Buchner

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.

— Georg Buchner

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

— Georg Buchner

In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries.

— Georg Buchner

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

— Georg Buchner

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

— Georg Buchner

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

— Georg Buchner

The sin is in our thoughts.

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

Your words smell of corpses.

— Georg Buchner

Dying people often become childish

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

— Georg Buchner

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

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

Love is a peculiar thing.

— Georg Buchner

That is a long word: forever!

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

— Georg Buchner

Death is the most blessed dream.

— Georg Buchner

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

There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner

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

— Georg Buchner