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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

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation

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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