In the contradiction lies the hope.
BERTOLT BRECHTBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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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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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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