What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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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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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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The fate of man is man.
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