Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe righteous one has no sense of humor.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Right is its own defense.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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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 mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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