I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHTSuppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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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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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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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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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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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Life is short and so is money.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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