I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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