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Bertolt Brecht170 quotes“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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht 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.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Temptation to behave is terrible.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht 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.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht 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.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht
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Boutros Boutros-GhaliBoutros Boutros-Ghali It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.
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