Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHTTo live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTLet nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen you name yourself, you always name another.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTNever believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHTEven hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
BERTOLT BRECHTA man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
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