What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTI Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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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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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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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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