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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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 right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
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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Fall Rain Summer
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
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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Feelings Historical Theatre
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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