It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere 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 BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
BERTOLT BRECHTDo not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTNowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
BERTOLT BRECHTBoy Meets Girl, So What?
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHTOnly bad generals need heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen you name yourself, you always name another.
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