Georg Büchner Quotes

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Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

Georg Büchner

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

Georg Büchner

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Georg Büchner

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Georg Büchner

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.

Georg Büchner

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

Georg Büchner

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

Georg Büchner

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Georg Büchner

In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries.

Georg Büchner

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.

Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner

Born: October 17, 1813

Died: February 19, 1837 (aged 23)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Woyzeck
Danton's Death (1835)
Leonce and Lena
Büchner: The Complete Plays

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