If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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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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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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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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