Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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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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What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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Grub first, then ethics.
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Right is its own defense.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
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What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Righteous people have no sense of humor.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In 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.
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Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
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