People who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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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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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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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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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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