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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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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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But something’s missing.
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