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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
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
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

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