Life is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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