With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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