In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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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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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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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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