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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise

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