Tucholsky Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,

Kurt Tucholsky

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

Kurt Tucholsky

#5. Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

James McBride

#6. 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

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

Kurt Tucholsky

#8. The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. 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

#10. The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Lou Gramm

#12. There is a phrase "neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab. There was certainly some red, and a lot of flapping, and Nutt was sure he caught a glimpse of an enormous sandal ...

Terry Pratchett

#13. I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Oscar Robertson

#14. He began to see why Merlyn had always clowned on purpose. It had been a means of helping people to learn in a happy way.

T.H. White

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

Kurt Tucholsky

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

Kurt Tucholsky

#17. I want you like this,crying out for me to release you but wanting it to go on for all eternity," he whispered against her skin. "Pleading with me to end this, begging me to never stop. It is there in your mind.I hear you, see your fantasies.I know each of them, and I will fulfill every one.

Christine Feehan

#18. The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Kurt Tucholsky

#19. To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.

Ruth Pitter

#20. Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

Kurt Tucholsky

#21. With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

David Coverdale

#22. On account of bad weather, German revolution took place in music

Kurt Tucholsky

#23. Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Kurt Tucholsky

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

Kurt Tucholsky

#25. How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

Kurt Tucholsky