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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Bertolt Brecht

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
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
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation

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