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Quotes from The Good Person of Sezuan — Bertolt Brecht

1898–1956 Germany

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5 quotes

Show interest in her goodness — for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

The Good Person of Sezuan (1943)

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

The Good Person of Sezuan (1943)

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

The Good Person of Sezuan (1943)

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

The Good Person of Sezuan (1943)

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

The Good Person of Sezuan (1943)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bertolt Brecht (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.