As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

- Ernst Toller

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 …

- Ernst Toller

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

- Ernst Toller

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

- Ernst Toller

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

- Ernst Toller

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 f…

- Ernst Toller

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

- Ernst Toller

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 ha…

- Ernst Toller

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

- Ernst Toller