Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
BERTOLT BRECHTFearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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The fate of man is man.
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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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Right is its own defense.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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