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"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
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Georg Büchner
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 and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. His literary achievements, though limited, are generally held in great esteem in Germany. Despite his brief career, his plays profoundly influenced naturalism, expressionism, and later devel
"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
"In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries."
"You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie."
"Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise."
"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."
"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
"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."
"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom."
"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."
"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."
"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"