Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Life is short and so is money.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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