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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

Bertolt Brecht

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
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
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

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