Kurt Tucholsky Quotes

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.

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“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.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“On account of bad weather, German revolution took place in music”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“That story always seemed very symbolic to me ... Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic”

— Kurt Tucholsky

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!

— Kurt Tucholsky

“How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“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.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Language is a weapon, keep it honed!”

— Kurt Tucholsky

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

— Kurt Tucholsky

You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

— Kurt Tucholsky