Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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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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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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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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