Temptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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