One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
BERTOLT BRECHTGreat sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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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 finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Life is short and so is money.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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But something’s missing.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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.
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