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

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

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