Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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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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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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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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