Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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