Georg Büchner Quote on Revolution and Self-Destruction

„Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.“

Karl Georg BüchnerGeorg Büchner describes the destructive nature of revolutions using Saturn devouring its own children as a metaphor.
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Karl Georg Büchner was a German writer, physician, scientist, and revolutionary of the 19th century.

This quote describes the destructive and self-destructive nature of revolutions from a historical perspective.


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Georg Büchner quote about revolution and self-destruction

Karl Georg Büchner (1813–1837) was a major German writer, physician, natural scientist, and political revolutionary. Despite his early death, he left a lasting literary legacy with works such as “Woyzeck” and “Danton's Death.”

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"On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order." Eugen Rosenstock
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