Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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