Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhy be a man when you can be a success?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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The fate of man is man.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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