What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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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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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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