Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHTEveryone needs help from everyone.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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