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.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can make a fresh start with your final breath.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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