When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Grub first, then ethics.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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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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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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