A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHTOur 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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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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