Georg Büchner: Zitate auf Englisch

Georg Büchner war Deutscher Schriftsteller, Naturwissenschaftler und Revolutionär. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“Murder begins where self-defense ends.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“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.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act IV
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.”

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Georg Büchner Der Hessische Landbote

The Hessian Courier (1834)

“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act III.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.”

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Georg Büchner Der Hessische Landbote

The Hessian Courier (1834)

“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.”

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Georg Büchner

Scene VI.
Woyzeck (1879)

“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.”

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Georg Büchner Leonce und Lena

Act II.
Leonce and Lena (1838)

“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.”

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Georg Büchner Der Hessische Landbote

The Hessian Courier (1834)

“Your words smell of corpses.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“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.”

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Georg Büchner Leonce und Lena

Und müden Augen jedes Licht zu scharf, und müden Lippen jeder Hauch zu schwer, Lächelnd. und müden Ohren jedes Wort zu viel.
Act II.
Leonce and Lena (1838)

“Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?”

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Georg Büchner Leonce und Lena

Act III
Leonce and Lena (1838)

“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”

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Georg Büchner Dantons Tod

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)