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.
BERTOLT BRECHTNever believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the grub, then the morals.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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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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