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.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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The 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.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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