Life is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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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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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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