Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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