He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Right is its own defense.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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