Bertolt Brecht Quotes - Page 3

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• Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Change, Enemy, Littles

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.277, Taylor & Francis

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• As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Distance, Curves, Two

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• 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Summer, Rain, Fall

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.247, Taylor & Francis

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• It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Acceptance, What Matters, Important

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.85, Grove Press

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• The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
  When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Teacher, Crazy, Literature

  "Life of Galileo". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1939.

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• In the contradiction lies the hope.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Lying, Contradiction

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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!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Nature, Confusion, Humanity

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.111, Grove Press

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• You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Finals, Fresh Start, Breaths

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.400, Taylor & Francis

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• None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Funny Good Morning, Cheesy, Gone

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War”, p.76, Grove Press

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• 　When the leaders speak of peace
  　The common folk know
  　That war is coming
  　When the leaders curse war
  　The mobilization order is already written out. 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.
  　

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Lying, Common Folk

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• There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Taste, Human Nature, Being Human

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• 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Government, People

  Bertolt Brecht (1998). “Collected Stories”, Arcade Pub

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• I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

  Bertolt Brecht

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• It's never too late for those whose time has come.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

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• Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Believe, Learning, Knows

  Bertolt Brecht, Maksim Gorky (1978). “The mother”, Grove/Atlantic

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• The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Order, Knives, Sweat

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.297, Taylor & Francis

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

  Bertolt Brecht

  Home, Wind, Guests

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.100, Taylor & Francis

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• If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fighting, Might, Lost

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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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Taken, Writing, Reality

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Tree, Woods

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• Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Kindness, Be Kind, Wanted

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• Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Believe, Men

  "Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo".

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• I don't trust him. We're friends.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Friendship, Trust, Negative

  Mutter Courage (Mother Courage, 1939) sc. 3

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• He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Laughing, News, Terrible

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