In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the pork chops, then morality
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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But something’s missing.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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