Kurt Eisner

“Every revolution is a conquest, is the taking of the Bastille.”

“Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.”

“The masses are not stupid, they are just sluggish.”

“We did not act out of blind hatred, not out of bloody desire, but out of the will to found an empire of light, beauty and reason.”

“A people that fights for tyrants is worthy of any fate.”

“The Bavarian Republic, which I have proclaimed, should be an oasis of peace in the bloody maelstrom of the world.”

“We do not want to conquer the world, we want to convince the world.”