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

- Kurt Tucholsky

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

- Kurt Tucholsky

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

- Kurt Tucholsky

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

- Kurt Tucholsky

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

- Kurt Tucholsky

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

- Kurt Tucholsky

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 generatio…

- Kurt Tucholsky

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 l…

- Kurt Tucholsky

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

- Kurt Tucholsky