Temptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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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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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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