What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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