The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTNone will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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What 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.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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