Terrible is the temptation to be good.
BERTOLT BRECHTOf all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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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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Realist 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.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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