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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Bertolt Brecht

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose 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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible

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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