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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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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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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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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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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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