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What Keeps Mankind Alive?

(brecht/weill)
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You gentlemen who think you have a mission
To purge us of the seven deadly sins
Should first sort out the basic food position
Then start your preaching, thats where it begins
You lot, who preach restraint and watch your waist as well
Should learn for all time how the world is run
However much you twist, whatever lies you tell
Food is the first thing, morals follow on
So first make sure that those, who now are starving
Get proper helpings, when we all start carving
What keeps mankind alive, the fact that millions
Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed
Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance
At keeping its humanity repressed
For once, you must not try to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
You say the girls may strip with your permission (whoa!)
You draw the line dividing art from sin

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song performed by Pet Shop Boys
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

quote by Robert Trout
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The Empty Purse--A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son

Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,
Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!
Quenched youth, and is that thy purse?
Even such limp slough as the snake has left
Slack to the gale upon spikes of whin,
For cast-off coat of a life gone blank,
In its frame of a grin at the seeker, is thine;
And thine to crave and to curse
The sweet thing once within.
Accuse him: some devil committed the theft,
Which leaves of the portly a skin,
No more; of the weighty a whine.

Pursue him: and first, to be sure of his track,
Over devious ways that have led to this,
In the stream's consecutive line,
Let memory lead thee back
To where waves Morning her fleur-de-lys,
Unflushed at the front of the roseate door
Unopened yet: never shadow there

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poem by George Meredith
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Cassio: Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!

classic line from Othello, Act II, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1603)
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

quote by Ida B. Wells
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Child's silent horror
Bestial sexual abuse
No knife scars for life

haiku by Ken e Hall
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

quote by Eldridge Cleaver
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To insult someone we call him ""bestial."" For deliberate cruelty and nature, ""human"" might be the greater insult.

quote by Isaac Asimov
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Bestial Affection....

my favorite dog
named pretty is
sleeping beside
the soles of my
feet letting me
feel
its warmth reminding
me
that there is such thing
as
bestial affection

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Truth.

We sometimes hap on truth in a strange attire,
As even the gods were wont for their designs
To take on bestial forms; subduing so
Their natures, even their divinity,
To the achievement of a mortal thing.

poem by Robert Crawford
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