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 BRECHTYou don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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Eats first, morals after.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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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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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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