Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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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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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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