What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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But something’s missing.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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