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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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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Art Discovery Reality
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support

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