Quotes by Karl Georg Bchner

The sin is in our thoughts.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

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

Love is a peculiar thing.

That is a long word: forever!

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

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.

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

In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries.

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

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.