Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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