Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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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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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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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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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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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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