Bertolt Brecht Short Quotes

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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Bertolt Brecht
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

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Berlin, an etching by Churchill, after an idea by Hitler.

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The camera is just as capable of lying as the typewriter.

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What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?

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What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

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No one can be good for long when goodness is not in demand.

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Mr. Wurlitzer, I am now in a position to receive your organ.

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How long Do works endure? As long As they are not completed.

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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

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Of those cities will remain what passed through them, the wind!

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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

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Without trampling down twelve others
You cannot help one poor man.

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Spring is noticed, if at all
By people sitting in railway trains.

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GALILEO:...Knowledge will become a passion and research an ecstasy.

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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

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From the cradle to the grave, underwear first, last and all the time.

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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out, when I've just bought fresh supplies.

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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest
You too have neither home nor rest.

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

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