He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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