Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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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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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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