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First the pork chops, then morality

Bertolt Brecht

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War

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