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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News 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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak

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