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.
BERTOLT BRECHTRealist 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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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Eats first, morals after.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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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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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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