One 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWith drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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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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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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