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More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
If you join the rat race you're in the race of rats.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
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.
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.
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.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
