What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the contradiction lies the hope.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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But something’s missing.
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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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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