I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHTCome in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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