But something’s missing.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, 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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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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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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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