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Right is its own defense.

Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War

Right is its own defense.

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