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.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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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.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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