Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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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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