Ernst Toller Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.”

“As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.”

“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.”

“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?”