Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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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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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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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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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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