…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHTGrub first, then ethics.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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