The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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But something’s missing.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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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 worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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