You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
BERTOLT BRECHTSchoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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The fate of man is man.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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