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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
The 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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Fall Rain Summer
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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

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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