Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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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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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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