Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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.
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