Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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