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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Desire Reality Understanding
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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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Majority Purpose Shoulders
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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