When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWriters can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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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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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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First the pork chops, then morality
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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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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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