Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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