No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
BERTOLT BRECHTA theater without beer is just a museum
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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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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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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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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The fate of man is man.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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The 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.
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