Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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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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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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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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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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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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