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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

Bertolt Brecht

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
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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 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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Desire Reality Understanding
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
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
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
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

He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

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