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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Right is its own defense.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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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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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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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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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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