All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHTEach of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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