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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350911" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From A German War Primer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AMONGST THE HIGHLY PLACED<br>It is considered low to talk about food.<br>The fact is: they have<br>Already eaten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lowly must leave this earth<br>Without having tasted<br>Any good meat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For wondering where they come from and<br>Where they are going<br>The fine evenings find them<br>Too exhausted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have not yet seen<br>The mountains and the great sea<br>When their time is already up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the lowly do not<br>Think about what's low<br>They will never rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE BREAD OF THE HUNGRY HAS<br>ALL BEEN EATEN<br>Meat has become unknown. Useless<br>The pouring out of the people's sweat.<br>The laurel groves have been<br>Lopped down.<br>From the chimneys of the arms factories<br>Rises smoke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE HOUSE-PAINTER SPEAKS OF<br>GREAT TIMES TO COME<br>The forests still grow.<br>The fields still bear<br>The cities still stand.<br>The people still breathe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON THE CALENDAR THE DAY IS NOT<br>YET SHOWN<br>Every month, every day<br>Lies open still. One of those days<br>Is going to be marked with a cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE WORKERS CRY OUT FOR BREAD<br>The merchants cry out for markets.<br>The unemployed were hungry. The employed<br>Are hungry now.<br>The hands that lay folded are busy again.<br>They are making shells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLE<br>Teach contentment.<br>Those for whom the contribution is destined<br>Demand sacrifice.<br>Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry<br>Of wonderful times to come.<br>Those who lead the country into the abyss<br>Call ruling too difficult<br>For ordinary men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN THE LEADERS SPEAK OF PEACE<br>The common folk know<br>That war is coming.<br>When the leaders curse war<br>The mobilization order is already written out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOSE AT THE TOP SAY: PEACE<br>AND WAR<br>Are of different substance.<br>But their peace and their war<br>Are like wind and storm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">War grows from their peace<br>Like son from his mother<br>He bears<br>Her frightful features.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their war kills<br>Whatever their peace<br>Has left over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON THE WALL WAS CHALKED:<br>They want war.<br>The man who wrote it<br>Has already fallen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOSE AT THE TOP SAY:<br>This way to glory.<br>Those down below say:<br>This way to the grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE WAR WHICH IS COMING<br>Is not the first one. There were<br>Other wars before it.<br>When the last one came to an end<br>There were conquerors and conquered.<br>Among the conquered the common people<br>Starved. Among the conquerors<br>The common people starved too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOSE AT THE TOP SAY COMRADESHIP<br>Reigns in the army.<br>The truth of this is seen<br>In the cookhouse.<br>In their hearts should be<br>The selfsame courage. But<br>On their plates<br>Are two kinds of rations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN IT COMES TO MARCHING MANY DO NOT<br>KNOW<br>That their enemy is marching at their head.<br>The voice which gives them their orders<br>Is their enemy's voice and<br>The man who speaks of the enemy<br>Is the enemy himself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT IS NIGHT<br>The married couples<br>Lie in their beds. The young women<br>Will bear orphans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">GENERAL, YOUR TANK IS A POWERFUL VEHICLE<br>It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men.<br>But it has one defect:<br>It needs a driver.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">General, your bomber is powerful.<br>It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant.<br>But it has one defect:<br>It needs a mechanic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">General, man is very useful.<br>He can fly and he can kill.<br>But he has one defect:<br>He can think.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bertolt+Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a><div class=q>
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It is considered low to talk about food.
The fact is: they have
Already eaten.

The lowly must leave this earth
Without having tasted
Any good meat.

For wondering where they come from and
Where they are going
The fine ev..."></div>
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