Bertolt Brecht Quotes - Page 4

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• A theater without beer is just a museum

  Bertolt Brecht

  Beer, Museums, Theater

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• The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Appreciation, Progress, Littles

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

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  Art, Mirrors, Hammers

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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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• What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

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  Silence, Tree, Kind

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

  Bertolt Brecht

  People, Expected

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• One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

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  People, World, Today

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• Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Men, Tiles

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.99, Grove Press

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• Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Death, Fear

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

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• Righteous people have no sense of humor.

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  People, Sense Of Humor, Righteous

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• You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

  Bertolt Brecht

  God, Sky, Storm

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

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

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wise, Poverty, Curse

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• Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Communication, Media

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• Why be a man when you can be a success?

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

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  Sports, Healthy, Great Sports

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• Right is its own defense.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Defense, Literature

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of cities: and other plays”, Grove Pr

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• When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Mean, Obvious Things, World

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Clean Underwear, Coffins, Literature

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.51, Grove Press

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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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  Strong, Theatre, Able

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• Terrible is the temptation to be good.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Temptation, Terrible, Be Good

  Bertolt Brecht (1960). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle, translated by J. and T. Stern, with W.H. Auden. The threepenny opera, translated by D.I. Vesey and E. Bentley. The trial of Lucullus, translated by H.R. Hays. The life of Galileo, translated by D.I. Vesey”

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• It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

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  Fog, Clerks, Bankers

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• To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

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  Mean, Finesse, Process

  "Notes on Philosophy", On Politics and Society, 1941.

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• Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, War, Hands

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

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• Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

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  Science, Accounts, Knows

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

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• The fate of man is man.

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  Fate, Men

  Bertolt Brecht (2016). “Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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