What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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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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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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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