Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the contradiction lies the hope.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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