When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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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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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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