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| Bertolt Brecht
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! Galileo: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes. Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.Don't tell me peace has broken out.Everyone needs help from everyone.For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.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. From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.Grub first, then ethics.He who is still laughing hasn't yet heard the bad news.If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead!Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter. Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear,
And he shows them pearly white;
Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear,
And he keeps it out of sight.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. People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to
themselves, they last too long.People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse. Right is its own defense.Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.Terrible is the temptation to be good.The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. 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.The right hand doesn't know that the left hand has been cut off.The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.War is like love, it always finds a way. War is like love; it always finds a way. We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed! Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!Why be a man when you can be a success? Would it not be easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect another? You can't fall off the floor.You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. |
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