Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTAlas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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