In the contradiction lies the hope.
BERTOLT BRECHTFearful is the seductive power of goodness.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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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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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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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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