The war which is comingIs not the first one. There wereOther wars before it.When the last one came to an endThere were conquerors and conquered.Among the conquered the common peopleStarved. Among the conquerorsThe common people starved too.

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Bertolt Brecht was a 19th-century German poet, playwright, and theatre director. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Inspirational — Uplifting words to motivate and inspire positive action
  • War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war

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