The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe righteous one has no sense of humor.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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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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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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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First the grub, then the morals.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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