Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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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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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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The 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.
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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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