No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
BERTOLT BRECHTWar is like love, it always finds a way.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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We 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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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