B. Traven Quotes

#1. Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.

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#2. The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

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#3. I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.

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#4. The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

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#5. Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against
anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

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#6. If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.

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#7. No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

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#8. Don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.

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#9. If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

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#10. The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

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#11. Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

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#12. It would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.

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#13. The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

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