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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht 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.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht
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