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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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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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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Right is its own defense.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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