People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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