We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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The fate of man is man.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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But something’s missing.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Right is its own defense.
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