Bertolt Brecht Quotes - Page 2

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• Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Reality, Order, Representation

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• Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Death, Anticipation

  "The Mother". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1930.

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• 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 Brecht

  Confusion, Humanity, Impossible

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• He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Enemy, Speak

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• Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Happiness, Happy, High Heels

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• 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Law, Naked, Literature

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.189, A&C Black

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• You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Truth Is, Weak

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• All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Government, Splits, Fool

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.186, Taylor & Francis

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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  Crush, Powerful, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Country, Sacrifice, Contentment

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• Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Freedom, Democracy, Favors

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• Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Book, Men, Weapons

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• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moving On, Wisdom, Mistake

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.87, Grove Press

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• Everyone needs help from everyone.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Collaboration, Needs, Helping

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• If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Race, Rats, Rat Race

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• The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wisdom, Science, Errors

  Bertolt Brecht (1962). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo”

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• Grub first, then ethics.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Food, Cooking, Firsts

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• People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fighting, People, May

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• Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Government, People, Ifs

  "Brecht on Brecht: An Improvisation". Book by George Tabori, 1967.

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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 war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, People, Lasts

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.288, Taylor & Francis

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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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• 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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• 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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• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Long, Literature, Demand

  Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (1948). “Parables for the theatre: The good woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian chalk circle”

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