Bertolt Brecht Quotes

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

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[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

An oppressed people will always rise.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

What art was to the ancient world, science is to the modern.

Getting involved in politics was a quest for freedom.