Georg Büchner Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Love is a peculiar thing.

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

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

Your words smell of corpses.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

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

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

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.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

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

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

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