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 BRECHTThe 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 BRECHTThose who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
BERTOLT BRECHTRealist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt 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 BRECHTPeople who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
BERTOLT BRECHTBoy Meets Girl, So What?
BERTOLT BRECHTThose who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
BERTOLT BRECHTGo make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
BERTOLT BRECHTSin 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t tell me peace has broken out.
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