Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
BERTOLT BRECHTGreat sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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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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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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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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