If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
BERTOLT BRECHTNone will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Unhappiness 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.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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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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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape 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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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