Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
BERTOLT BRECHTLittle changes are the enemies of great changes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the grub, then the morals.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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The fate of man is man.
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Eats first, morals after.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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