A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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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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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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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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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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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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