The fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTErst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Right is its own defense.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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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.
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