Temptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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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Right is its own defense.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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