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Georg Buchner [1813-1837] German
Rank: 103
Dramatist


Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary, a natural scientist, and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner.

Courage, Death, Power, Strength, Women



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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
101
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. Death
102
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
103
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
104
The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
105
That is a long word: forever!
106
The power of the people and the power of reason are one. Power
107
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
108
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.
109
Love is a peculiar thing.
110
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
111
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
112
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
113
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.
114
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. Women
115
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
116
Dying people often become childish.
117
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
118
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
119
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
120
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
121
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
122
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. Courage
123
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
124
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. Strength
125
Death is the most blessed dream.
126
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
201
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
202
Your words smell of corpses.
203
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
204

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