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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.

Bertolt Brecht

You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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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Criminals Doe Lying
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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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Government Party People
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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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Art Discovery Reality
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind

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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