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.
Ernst TollerAs 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 TollerAnd 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.
Ernst TollerThe revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
Ernst Toller