For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
BERTOLT BRECHTSpring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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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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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When 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.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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