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.
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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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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