Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Interpretation
Change is inevitable and constant; nothing remains the same forever.
Bertolt Brecht's quote emphasizes the fluidity of life and reality. It suggests that the current state of affairs will not endure, as change is a fundamental aspect of existence. This perspective encourages us to accept that transformation is a natural process, and it provokes contemplation about the dynamics of our environment and personal circumstances.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing personal growth and adaptability.
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.
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.
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
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