All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the grub, then the morals.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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