Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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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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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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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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