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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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