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

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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