Kurt Tucholsky Quotes

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.