On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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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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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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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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