Georg Büchner Quotes

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

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

That is a long word: forever!

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

Your words smell of corpses.

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

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

Und müden Augen jedes Licht zu scharf, und müden Lippen jeder Hauch zu schwer, Lächelnd. und müden Ohren jedes Wort zu viel.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Love is a peculiar thing.