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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

Bertolt Brecht

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

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