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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables

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