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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life

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