I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Right is its own defense.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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