Quotes from work

Danton's Death

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

“Murder begins where self-defense ends.”

“The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one’s own nature.”

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

“The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.”

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

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

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

“Your words smell of corpses.”

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

“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”

“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”

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

“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.”

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

“Dying people often become childish”

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

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