For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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