War is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHTLiterary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Each 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.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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But something’s missing.
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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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