People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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