When you name yourself, you always name another.
BERTOLT BRECHTOh! 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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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We 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.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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