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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

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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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
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

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