Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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People who understand everything get no stories.
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