I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHTSometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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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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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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