When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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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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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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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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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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