If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t tell me peace has broken out.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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