Everyone needs help from everyone.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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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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First the grub, then the morals.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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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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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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