Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.
Interpretation
Embrace individuality and respect the unique qualities of others.
Bertolt Brecht highlights the importance of recognizing and valuing individual differences rather than comparing one another in a hierarchical manner. Instead of fostering competition, we should celebrate each person's unique strengths and characteristics, promoting a culture of respect and appreciation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance.
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
All human suffering concerns each human being.
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
What is life without incompatible realities?
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
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