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What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the troub...
By Bertolt Brecht
The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I've felt that way, too. That's the way I am. That's life. That's the way it will...
By Bertolt Brecht
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) and sets (trans...
By Bertolt Brecht
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, ...
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the forme...
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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.
By Bertolt Brecht
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
By Bertolt Brecht
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.
By Bertolt Brecht
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.
By Bertolt Brecht
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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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.
By Bertolt Brecht
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
By Bertolt Brecht
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
By Bertolt Brecht