When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTI’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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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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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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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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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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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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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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