Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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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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First the pork chops, then morality
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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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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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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