Quotes from book
The Exception and the Rule

Name: The Exception and the Rule
Author: Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

The Exception and the Rule is a short play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and is one of several Lehrstücke he wrote around 1929/30. The objective of Brecht's Lehrstücke was that they be taken on tour and performed in schools or in factories to educate the masses about socialist politics.

“Let nothing be called natural
In an age of bloody confusion”

Bertolt Brecht book The Exception and the Rule

The Exception and the Rule (1937), Prologue
Context: Let nothing be called natural
In an age of bloody confusion,
Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
Be held unalterable!