Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Right is its own defense.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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