He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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