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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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