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

Bertolt Brecht

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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

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