People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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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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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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The fate of man is man.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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