Temptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you sad as well as wise.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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