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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Bertolt Brecht

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

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