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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted

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