"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
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"I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright."
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"I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write."
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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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"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
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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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"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. 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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"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse."
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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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"I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: "Brecht, amputate a leg!", I would reply, "Certainly, Your Excellency!", and cut off the leg. If I was told, "Perform a trepanning!" I opened the man's skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could."
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"You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself."
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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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"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."
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"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn."
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"Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest."
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"A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls."
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"Little changes are the enemies of great changes."
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"Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science."
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"Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves."
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"Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not."
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