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.
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
-
-
The fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
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 BRECHT -
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Everyone needs help from everyone.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
BERTOLT BRECHT -
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHT -
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
BERTOLT BRECHT -
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 BRECHT -
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.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
BERTOLT BRECHT