Terrible is the temptation to be good.
BERTOLT BRECHTErst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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But something’s missing.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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