Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht170 quotes“Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?”
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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