Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Eats first, morals after.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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