We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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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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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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