When you name yourself, you always name another.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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