What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
BERTOLT BRECHTBoy Meets Girl, So What?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Grub first, then ethics.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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