Ernst Toller

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#buried #community #darkness #deep #fact

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#become #frozen #longer #overthrow #revolution

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#continue #die #hearts #revolution #spirit

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#defended #done #duty #each #france

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#bit #feel #front #go #happy

I saw the dead without really seeing them. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#i #really #saw #seeing #them

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#anything #could #had #hanging #him

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#french #german #imagination #imagine #make

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#hear #slogans #truth #us #which

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#everyday #friendly #heads #knew #lived