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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
Language is a weapon, keep it honed!
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
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!
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
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.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
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.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
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.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
Ihr glaubt, ihr seid dazu verpflichtet - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht! Auch ohne Liebe sind wir manchmal glücklich und froh - es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so! Es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so!
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
Noch nie hat die Demokratie so prompt reagiert, wie wenn es sich darum handelt, etwas gegen die Diktatur nicht zu tun.
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By AnonymKurt Tucholsky
Sprache ist eine Waffe. Haltet sie scharf.
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