Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHTGrub first, then ethics.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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