Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHTRecently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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