Talk:Bertolt Brecht

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 * There is nothing so interesting on stage than a man trying to get a knot out of his shoelaces.


 * In the contradiction lies the hope.


 * Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.


 * Why be a man when you can be a success?


 * Vices have their point once you see it as such, but stick to two for one will be too much.


 * There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.


 * Don't rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world stood up and stopped the Bastard, the Bitch that bore him is in heat again.
 * May 6, 1945


 * Under Capitalism you sell your piss to the urinal.


 * If all people want is to see something they understand, they shouldn't go to the theater. They should go to the bathroom.


 * Finns can be silent in several languages.


 * Crude thinking is the thinking of great men.


 * Truth is belligerent. Truth is, by its very nature, at war with the forces of falsehood and deceit.