When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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