Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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