When you name yourself, you always name another.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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But something’s missing.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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