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.
BERTOLT BRECHTOur 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
BERTOLT BRECHTI’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTLittle changes are the enemies of great changes.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTEven 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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