Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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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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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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