Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
BERTOLT BRECHTWar is like love, it always finds a way.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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