People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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But something’s missing.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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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