Bertolt Brecht Quotes
Bertolt Brecht Quotes
People who understand everything get no stories.
1087The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
1940 Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
4048 Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
3056 Epitaph
Den Tigern ertrann ich
Die Wanzen nährte ich
Aufgefressen wurde ich
Von den Mittelmäßigkeiten.
4033 The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
2939 We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.
3585 Why be a man when you can be a success.
3536 We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
3698 The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.
1648 Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.
4613 Potkupljivost je u ljudi isto što u Boga milosrđe.
1890 Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government's confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another?
1161 Those who are weak don't fight.
Those who are stronger might fight
for an hour.
Those who are stronger still might fight
for many years.
The strongest fight
their whole life.
They are the indispensable ones.
3064 Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No
4368 He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.
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