On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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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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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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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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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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