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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance

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