The righteous one has no sense of humor.
BERTOLT BRECHTThings take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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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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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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The fate of man is man.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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