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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Bertolt Brecht

For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People

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