…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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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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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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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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Grub first, then ethics.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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