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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

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