First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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But something’s missing.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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