Kurt Tucholsky famous quotes

07-16-2025

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.
-- Kurt Tucholsky

#Today #Expect Nothing
How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.
-- Kurt Tucholsky

#Wonderful #Silent
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

#Character #One Love #Difficult
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

#Hate #Fire #World
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
-- Kurt Tucholsky

#Opposites #Play #Dumb
A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,
-- Kurt Tucholsky

#Country #Doe #Tolerate
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

#Rocks #People #Bleeding
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

#Fashion #Queens #Fate
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
-- Kurt Tucholsky

#Men #Hundred #Thousand
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
-- Kurt Tucholsky

#Writing #Oddities #Hands

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