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.
When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
In the 1970s in black and Asian households up and down the country, there's a familiar story that when we saw a non-white person on TV we would call the rest of the family to the sitting room to have a look. The story that is less well known is what it was like to be that one black person on TV.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.
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