…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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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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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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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.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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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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