Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
BERTOLT BRECHTLittle changes are the enemies of great changes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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The fate of man is man.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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