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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Bertolt Brecht

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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

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