Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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But something’s missing.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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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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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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