If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
BERTOLT BRECHTRecently 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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