Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
BERTOLT BRECHTSomething ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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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