First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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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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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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