Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
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Famous Georg Büchner Quotes
“Murder begins where self-defense ends.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Quotes about love
“How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?”
Act I.
Leonce and Lena (1838)
Georg Büchner Quotes about life
“The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.”
Georg Büchner The Hessian Courier
The Hessian Courier (1834)
Georg Büchner Quotes
“Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.”
Act IV
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.”
Georg Büchner The Hessian Courier
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.”
Act III.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.”
Georg Büchner The Hessian Courier
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Your words smell of corpses.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Und müden Augen jedes Licht zu scharf, und müden Lippen jeder Hauch zu schwer, Lächelnd. und müden Ohren jedes Wort zu viel.
Act II.
Leonce and Lena (1838)
“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Dying people often become childish”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.”
Scene VI.
Woyzeck (1879)
“There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
Georg Büchner The Hessian Courier
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”
Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
