Right is its own defense.
BERTOLT BRECHTSome 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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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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The fate of man is man.
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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