Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
BERTOLT BRECHTGrub first, then ethics.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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