Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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