A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHTThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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When 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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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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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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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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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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