People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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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.
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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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