When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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But something’s missing.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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