I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHTSchoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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