Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
BERTOLT BRECHTWith drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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The fate of man is man.
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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.
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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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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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