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.
BERTOLT BRECHTAll 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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