The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTOf all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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