Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen 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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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