Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
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.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
If you don't have fun, you don't have a show.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" 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.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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.
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