Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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