Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Of 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.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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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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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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