Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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