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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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

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