Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
BERTOLT BRECHTI don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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But something’s missing.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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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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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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Grub first, then ethics.
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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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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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