Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht Quotes
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Right is its own defense.
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Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me! Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!
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What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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The rainNever falls upwards.When the woundStops hurtingWhat hurts isThe scar.
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
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Their peace and their warAre like wind and storm.War grows from their peace.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Spring is noticed, if at allBy people sitting in railway trains.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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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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In den finsteren ZeitenWird da auch gesungen werden?Da wird auch gesungen werden.Von den finsteren Zeiten.
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
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But something's missing (Aber etwas fehlt).
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.
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Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guestYou too have neither home nor rest.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.