Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht Quotes
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Of all the works of man I like bestThose which have been used.The copper pots with their dents and flattened edgesThe knives and forks whose wooden handlesHave been worn away by many hands: such formsSeemed to me the noblest.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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And the shark he has his teeth and There they are for all to see And Macheath he has his knife but No one knows where it may be.
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For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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And I always thought: the very simplest wordsMust be enough. When I say what things are likeEveryone's heart must be torn to shreds.That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourselfSurely you see that.
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Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!It cannot traceEither your name or your faceNobody knows you're still living.
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War is like love; it always finds a way.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out 'stop!'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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.
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The headlong stream is termed violentBut the river bed hemming it in isTermed violent by no one.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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High above the lake a bomber flies.From the rowing boatsChildren look up, women, an old man. From a distanceThey appear like young starlings, their beaksWide open for food.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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And when she was finished they laid her in earthFlowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...She, so light, barely pressed the earth downHow much pain it took to make her as light as that!
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It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Those who are weak don't fight.Those who are stronger might fightfor an hour.Those who are stronger still might fightfor many years.The strongest fighttheir whole life.They are the indispensable ones.
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On golden chairsSitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chantedTo those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tearsAnd for comforting all those whom you had wounded.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.