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    Kim Michele Richardson
    “I had no right telling you how you should feel. No right claiming knowledge on things I could and will never feel. I've never known harm or exile because of my skin. Nor felt the lash of leather whips or angry tongues because of it.”
    Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

  • #2
    Kim Michele Richardson
    “We pray that the laws of the land will change to favor all unions, all folks one day. I remain hopeful for our safety and our future.”
    Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

  • #3
    M.A. Nichols
    “That is the nature of falsehoods. Like a small debt incurred, the interest builds, and when collection is due, the burden is much greater than the original lie was worth.”
    M.A. Nichols, The Jack of All Trades

  • #4
    “Carole is cutting in on my conversation with Judy, yammering on about how hydration and sleep are two of the three pillars of weight loss. No one wants to admit that starvation is the third.”
    Alli Frank, Never Meant to Meet You

  • #5
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #6
    Bertolt Brecht
    “If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
    We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,
    If only we could act instead of talking,
    We wouldn't always end up on our arse.
    This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
    Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
    Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
    The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
    Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

  • #7
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #8
    Bertolt Brecht
    “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.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #9
    Bertolt Brecht
    “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #10
    Bertolt Brecht
    “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.
    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.”
    Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems: The Influential 20th Century German Poet's Accessible Bilingual Collection for Modern Readers

  • #11
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.”
    Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

  • #12
    Bertolt Brecht
    “First of all, they came to take the gypsies
    and I was happy because they pilfered.
    Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing,
    because they were unpleasant to me.
    Then they came to take homosexuals,
    and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
    Then they came to take the Communists,
    and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
    One day they came to take me,
    and there was nobody left to protest.

    Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller”
    Bertold Brecht

  • #13
    Bertolt Brecht
    “He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. ”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #14
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Pleasures
    First look from morning's window
    The rediscovered book
    Fascinated faces
    Snow, the change of the seasons
    The newspaper
    The dog
    Dialectics
    Showering, swimming
    Old music
    Comfortable shoes
    Comprehension
    New music
    Writing, planting
    Traveling
    Singing
    Being friendly”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #15
    Bertolt Brecht
    “People who understand everything get no stories.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #16
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #17
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
    Bertholt Brecht

  • #18
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #19
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #20
    Bertolt Brecht
    “General, your tank is a powerful vehicle
    It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men.
    But it has one defect:
    It needs a driver.

    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.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #21
    Bertolt Brecht
    “The war which is coming
    Is not the first one. There were
    Other wars before it.
    When the last one came to an end
    There were conquerors and conquered.
    Among the conquered the common people
    Starved. Among the conquerors
    The common people starved too.

    Bertolt Brecht, Poems 1913-1956

  • #22
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to common sense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face”
    Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

  • #23
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Weaknesses

    You had none
    I had one:
    I loved.”
    Bertolt Brecht, Love Poems

  • #24
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Write me what you're wearing! Is it warm?
    Write me how you lie! Do you lie there softly?
    Write me how you look! Is it still the same?
    Write me what you're missing! Is it my arm?

    Write me how you are! Have you been spared?
    Write me what they're doing! Do you have enough courage?
    Write me what you're doing! Is it good?
    Write me, who are you thinking of? Is it me?

    Freely, I've given you only my questions.
    And I hear the answers, how they fall.
    When you're tired, I can't carry it for you.

    If you're hungry, I have nothing for you to eat.
    And so now I leave the world
    No longer there, as if I've forgotten you.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #25
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.”
    Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

  • #26
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Every time you name yourself, you name someone else.”
    Bertolt Brecht
    tags: masks

  • #27
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
    In the books you will find the name of kings.
    Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
    And Babylon, many times demolished.
    Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
    Of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
    Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
    Did the masons go? Great Rome
    Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
    Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song,
    Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even in fabled Atlantis
    The night the ocean engulfed it
    The drowning still bawled for their slaves.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #28
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No”
    Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

  • #29
    Bertolt Brecht
    “For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #30
    Bertolt Brecht
    “What are you working on?” Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time; I’m preparing my next mistake.”
    Bertolt Brecht, Stories of Mr. Keuner



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