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 BRECHTShow them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What 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.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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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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