When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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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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The fate of man is man.
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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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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