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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

Bertolt Brecht

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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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

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