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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
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Bertolt Brecht's Popular Quotes

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

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Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

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For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

- Bertolt Brecht

First the pork chops, then morality

- Bertolt Brecht
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