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BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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 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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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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Right is its own defense.
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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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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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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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But something’s missing.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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