People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
BERTOLT BRECHTFrom the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Right is its own defense.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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