I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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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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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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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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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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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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