Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
BERTOLT BRECHTArt and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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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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The fate of man is man.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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