What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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