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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Bertolt Brecht

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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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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Art Discovery Reality
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
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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Government People War
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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