The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry? - Bertolt Brecht
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?
- Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost. - Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you! - Bertolt Brecht
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. - Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. - Bertolt Brecht
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal. - Bertolt Brecht
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming. - Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
First the pork chops, then morality - Bertolt Brecht
First the pork chops, then morality
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. - Bertolt Brecht
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
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