You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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