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Famous Bertolt Brecht Quotes
“Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
Source: Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children
“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
Source: Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays
“No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.”
Source: Parables for the theatre: The good woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian chalk circle
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?”
“If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.”
“It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.”
Source: Parables for the theatre: Two plays: The good woman of Setzuan and The caucasian chalk circle
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic