From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
BERTOLT BRECHTOh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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