Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTNone will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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