The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTOf all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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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 fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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Don’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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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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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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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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