It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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.
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But something’s missing.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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