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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.

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.
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Fall Rain Summer
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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.
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Lasts People War
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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Condition Example Made Realist
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

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