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.
BERTOLT BRECHTLittle changes are the enemies of great changes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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But something’s missing.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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First the pork chops, then morality
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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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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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