There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Something 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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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