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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
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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Fall Rain Summer
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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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Criminals Doe Lying
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
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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor

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