Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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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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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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First the grub, then the morals.
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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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