Everyone needs help from everyone.
BERTOLT BRECHTAlas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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’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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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