To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
BERTOLT BRECHTSchoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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