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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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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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