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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.

Bertolt Brecht

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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
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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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

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