Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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 finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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First the grub, then the morals.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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