Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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