Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht Quotes
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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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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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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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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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.
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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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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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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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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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War is like love; it always finds a way.
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
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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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It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Right is its own defense.