Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTFearful is the seductive power of goodness.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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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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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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