1.
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Georg Buchner
2.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner
3.
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Georg Buchner
4.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner
5.
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner
6.
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
Georg Buchner
7.
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 Buchner
8.
And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.
Georg Buchner
9.
The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
Georg Buchner
10.
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
Georg Buchner
11.
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
Georg Buchner
12.
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Georg Buchner
13.
Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.
Georg Buchner
14.
Death is the most blessed dream.
Georg Buchner
15.
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
Georg Buchner
16.
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Georg Buchner
17.
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Georg Buchner
18.
Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.
Georg Buchner
19.
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
Georg Buchner
20.
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg Buchner
21.
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg Buchner
22.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
Georg Buchner
23.
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Georg Buchner
24.
Love is a peculiar thing.
Georg Buchner
25.
That is a long word: forever!
Georg Buchner
26.
Dying people often become childish.
Georg Buchner
27.
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Georg Buchner
28.
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Georg Buchner
29.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
Georg Buchner
30.
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.
Georg Buchner
31.
The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.
Georg Buchner
32.
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 Buchner
33.
Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.
Georg Buchner
34.
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Georg Buchner
35.
The sin is in our thoughts.
Georg Buchner
36.
Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
Georg Buchner
37.
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
Georg Buchner
38.
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.
Georg Buchner
39.
Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?
Georg Buchner