Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
BERTOLT BRECHTNone will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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