People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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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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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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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