Right is its own defense.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen you name yourself, you always name another.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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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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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Grub first, then ethics.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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We 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.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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