One must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTNowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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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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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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Right is its own defense.
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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First the grub, then the morals.
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The fate of man is man.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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But something’s missing.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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