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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
When 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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Fall Rain Summer
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men

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