What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
BERTOLT BRECHTLife is short and so is money.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Right is its own defense.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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