For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
BERTOLT BRECHTHere today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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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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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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It 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.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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