It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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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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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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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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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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