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

Bertolt Brecht

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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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Clothes Feelings Writing
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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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Abuse Kissing Race
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War

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

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