Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
BERTOLT BRECHTEveryone needs help from everyone.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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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.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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