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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

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm

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