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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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