Ernst Toller Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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Go West, young man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
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I swear to God, I will see the Palestinian state, whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.
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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.
