Terrible is the temptation to be good.
BERTOLT BRECHTWriters can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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First the grub, then the morals.
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