Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTI don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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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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