In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHTWriters can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Life is short and so is money.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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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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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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