To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHTOur 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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General, 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.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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