Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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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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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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