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.
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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Life is short and so is money.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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