You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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