Danton's Death
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“Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.”
“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”
“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”
“Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.”
“Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.”
“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”
“There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.”
“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.”
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“How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?”
“I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny”
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“The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.”
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”
“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”
“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”
“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
“Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.”