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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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

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