Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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