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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

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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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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Belief Men Running
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose 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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Fall Rain Summer
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names

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