Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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But something’s missing.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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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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