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(9 votes)   The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

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(8 votes)   Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

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(138 votes)   For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

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(128 votes)   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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(122 votes)   Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

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1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

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(122 votes)   We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

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(116 votes)   A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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(116 votes)   Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. 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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(71 votes)   From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

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(66 votes)   Grub first, then ethics.

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(64 votes)   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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(63 votes)   Everyone needs help from everyone.

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(57 votes)   To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

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(55 votes)   Don't tell me peace has broken out.

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(46 votes)   Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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