Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
BERTOLT BRECHTFrom the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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