Ernst Toller's Profile
Brief about Ernst Toller: By info that we know Ernst Toller was born at 1970-01-01. And also Ernst Toller is German Playwright.
Some Ernst Toller's quotes. Goto "Ernst Toller's quotation" section for more.We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.
Tags: Between, Good, OldAnd 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.
Tags: Deep, Simple, TruthWe 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.
Tags: Become, Revolution, SituationAnd the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
Tags: Die, Revolution, WhileEach had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
Tags: Country, Done, DutyHow happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
Tags: Happy, Last, LifeThe revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
Tags: Millions, Revolution, WorkingAfter that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
Tags: Death, Home, LivingAs 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.
Tags: Dead, Fair, UsedAt that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.
Tags: Dead, Men, MomentGradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
Tags: Another, Group, SingleLater 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.
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