Georg Buchner

“Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.”

“Your words smell of corpses.”

“Dying people often become childish.”

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

“Love is a peculiar thing.”

“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.”

“Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”

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

“The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.”