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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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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Desire Reality Understanding
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Don’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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Confusion Humanity Impossible
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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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Abuse Kissing Race
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

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