Ernst Toller Inspirational Quotes (7)

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.

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

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.

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

At 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.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.