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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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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Moving People Trouble
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred

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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