The fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTWould it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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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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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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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.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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