About Georg Buchner: Karl Georg Büchner 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.
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Your words smell of corpses.
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
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.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
