Quote

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.

Ernst Toller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ernst Toller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 1
Died: 1939
Died: May 22
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Need
Lean
Needs
Destroys
Life
Discover
People
Rule
Afraid
Social
Nature
Truth
Crutches

More quotes by Ernst Toller

Image
I saw the dead without really seeing them.
Ernst Toller
Image
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
Image
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
Ernst Toller
Image
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
Image
Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
Ernst Toller
Image
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.
Ernst Toller