Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Eats first, morals after.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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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!
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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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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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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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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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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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