The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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