You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose 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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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First the grub, then the morals.
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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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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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