None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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