Lysander Spooner
American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century
Karl Georg Buchnerwas a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Buchner.
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Karl Georg Buchnerwas a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Buchner. His literary achievements, though few in number, are generally held in great esteem in Germany and it is widely believed that, had it not been for his early death, he might have joined such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the summit of their profession.
31 Quotes by Georg Buchner
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A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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Death is the most blessed dream.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 9.
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 10.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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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 BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 12.
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 13.
Your words smell of corpses.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 14.
I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 15.
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 17.
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 18.
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 19.
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 20.
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 21.
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 22.
Love is a peculiar thing.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 23.
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 24.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 25.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 26.
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 27.
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 28.
That is a long word: forever!
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 29.
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 30.
Dying people often become childish.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
- 31.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg BuchnerGerman dramatist and writer of poetry and prose