When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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