All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHTOf all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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The fate of man is man.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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