For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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
-
-
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
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 BRECHT -
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
BERTOLT BRECHT -
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.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
In the contradiction lies the hope.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT