Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of 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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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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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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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But something’s missing.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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