If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere 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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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 wise but it’s a curse.
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Right is its own defense.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Realist 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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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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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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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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