What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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