Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German journalist Kurt Tucholsky.
Last updated on November 6, 2024.
Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
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.
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.
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.
How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.
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.
Language is a weapon, keep it honed!
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
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!