Kurt Tucholsky quotes

Kurt Tucholsky quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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

#Wonderful Quotes #Silent Quotes
“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 Quotes #One Love Quotes #Difficult 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

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

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

#Country Quotes #Doe Quotes #Tolerate Quotes
“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 Quotes #People Quotes #Bleeding Quotes
“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 Quotes #Queens Quotes #Fate Quotes
“One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic”
-- Kurt Tucholsky

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

Source : "Schnipsel". Die Weltbühne, p. 185, February 3, 1931.

#Writing Quotes #Oddities Quotes #Hands Quotes

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