Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholskywas a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930...
rocks people bleeding
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.
arteries audience freedom needed nine people quotes stage
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.
happened
What happened to November? Silence. All gone. Just that, in fact. An act. An act.
credit pay assumption
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
advice weapons language
Language is a weapon, keep it honed!
advice quality pay
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.
writing oddities hands
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
fashion queens fate
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.
hate fire world
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.
wonderful silent
How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.
character one-love difficult
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!
men hundred thousand
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
opposites play dumb
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
country doe tolerate
A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,