When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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