If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
BERTOLT BRECHTSuppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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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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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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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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Right is its own defense.
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