Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTAs regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
BERTOLT BRECHTFrom the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
BERTOLT BRECHTRecently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
BERTOLT BRECHTBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
BERTOLT BRECHTWould it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s never too late for those whose time has come.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHTSome 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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