Karl Georg Büchner – niemiecki rewolucjonista, pisarz i przyrodnik.
„To nie sztuka być uczciwym człowiekiem, jak się co dzień je zupę, jarzynę i mięso.”
Es ist keine Kunst, ein ehrlicher Mann zu sein, wenn man täglich Suppe, Gemüse und Fleisch zu essen hat. (niem.)
Źródło: Utwory zebrane, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1956
„Człowiek jest otchłanią; w głowie się kręci, gdy się spojrzy.”
Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund, es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht. (niem.)
Źródło: Woyzeck, tłum. Jerzy Liebert
“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Murder begins where self-defense ends.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“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.”
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.”
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)
“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)
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
Act II.
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)
“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)