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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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