Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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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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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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