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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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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Errors Science Wisdom
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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

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