He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is the wish to give, not to receive.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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