People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe righteous one has no sense of humor.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Eats first, morals after.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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