Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
BERTOLT BRECHTWith 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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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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