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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Bertolt Brecht

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

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