It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe righteous one has no sense of humor.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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