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?
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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