Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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