Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTSuppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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