The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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.
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The fate of man is man.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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