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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War

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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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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