Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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