Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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