Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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