With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHTThough the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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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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Eats first, morals after.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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