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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

Bertolt Brecht

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth

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