People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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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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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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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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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Right is its own defense.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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