Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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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 fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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