The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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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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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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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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