First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTAll artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Right is its own defense.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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