First the pork chops, then morality
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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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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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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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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The fate of man is man.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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