“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Quotes from workDanton's Death
Georg BüchnerOriginal title Dantons Tod (German, 1835)
Danton's Death was the first play written by Georg Büchner, set during the French Revolution.
Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
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)
“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.”
Act III.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“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)
“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“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)
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)
“There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
