Bertolt Brecht Quotes - Page 3

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• 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. 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Discovery

  "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

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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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Government, People

  Bertolt Brecht (1998). “Collected Stories”, Arcade Pub

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• Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Mirrors, Hammers

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• If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Money, Stealing, Ifs

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• A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Thinking, Persons

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• 　When the leaders speak of peace
  　The common folk know
  　That war is coming
  　When the leaders curse war
  　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.
  　

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Lying, Common Folk

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• The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
  When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Teacher, Crazy, Literature

  "Life of Galileo". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1939.

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• Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Home, Wind, Guests

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.100, Taylor & Francis

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• It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Acceptance, What Matters, Important

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.85, Grove Press

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• War is like love, it always finds a way.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Life, Military

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War”, p.76, Grove Press

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• Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Believe, Learning, Knows

  Bertolt Brecht, Maksim Gorky (1978). “The mother”, Grove/Atlantic

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• People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

  Bertolt Brecht

  People, Expected

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• He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Laughing, News, Terrible

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• I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

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• Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Believe, Men

  "Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo".

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• 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Summer, Rain, Fall

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.247, Taylor & Francis

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• What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Funny Good Morning, Cheesy, Gone

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War”, p.76, Grove Press

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• Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Country, Hero, Needs

  Bertolt Brecht (1999). “Playwright and the City: Calcutta's Tribute to Brecht in His Centenary Year”

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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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Kissing, Race, Abuse

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 4: Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?”, p.377, A&C Black

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• As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Distance, Curves, Two

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• There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Taste, Human Nature, Being Human

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• None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fighting, Might, Lost

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• Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wise, Poverty, Curse

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• It's never too late for those whose time has come.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

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