They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Quotes from Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) — Georg Büchner
1813–1837 Germany
25 quotes
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
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The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
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Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
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You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
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Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
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The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
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I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
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Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
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The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
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Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body.
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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Murder begins where self-defense ends.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georg Büchner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.