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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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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Army War Years
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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Acting Men People
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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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Kind Silence Tree
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
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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Cutting Men Transfusion 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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

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