He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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First the grub, then the morals.
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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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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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