General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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