Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Life is short and so is money.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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