What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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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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