He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen you name yourself, you always name another.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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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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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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First the pork chops, then morality
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Right is its own defense.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The 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.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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