The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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