None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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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.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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