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.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.
You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesnβt get found. It emerges.
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
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