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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Bertolt Brecht

If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

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