I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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