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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

Bertolt Brecht

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
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay

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