Phrase by 'Ernst Toller'

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And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Me , Simple , Man , Light


Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Others , People , Mother , Imagination


I saw the dead without really seeing them.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Without , Seeing , Dead , Them


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.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  See , Right , Revolution , Situation


After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Home , Man , Soul , Death


And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Will , Spirit , Die , Revolution


As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Look , Day , Boy , Dead


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.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Moment , Men , Brother , Blind


Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Own , Done , Country , Duty


Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

Author: Ernst Toller - German Playwright
  Group , Communication , Details , Soldiers


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