When you name yourself, you always name another.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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 mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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