Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat 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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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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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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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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