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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Bertolt Brecht

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork

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