…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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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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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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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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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Life is short and so is money.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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