Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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