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.
BERTOLT BRECHTReality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Art 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. …
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Right is its own defense.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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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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