Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
BERTOLT BRECHTGo make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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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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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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