He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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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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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Life is short and so is money.
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