It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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What 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.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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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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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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