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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.

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers

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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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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