Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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