We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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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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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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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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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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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