To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Life is short and so is money.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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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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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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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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