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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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But something’s missing.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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