First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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