When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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