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!
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Eats first, morals after.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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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