I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is the wish to give, not to receive.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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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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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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