"For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group."
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"If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost."
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"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."
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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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"Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there."
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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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"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."
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"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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"If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats."
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"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it."
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"To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say."
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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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"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. 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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"From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun."
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"Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!"
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"If you don't have fun, you don't have a show."
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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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"Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing."
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"Terrible is the temptation to be good."
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"A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore."
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