You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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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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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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