Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the grub, then the morals.
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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