Bertolt Brecht Quotes - Page 8

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• Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Snow, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.99, Taylor & Francis

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• The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Tree, Storm, Violent

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.276, Taylor & Francis

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• One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, War, Declaring

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• Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Years, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht (1971). “Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children”

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• The righteous one has no sense of humor.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Humor, Sense Of Humor, Righteous

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Leadership, Two, Numbers

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• When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

  Bertolt Brecht

  House, Littles, Collapse

  Bertolt Brecht (1957). “Two Plays: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle”

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Crush, Powerful, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• When you name yourself, you always name another.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Names

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• What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Good Things, Rapture, Knows

  Bertolt Brecht (1983). “Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht”, Plume Books

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

  Bertolt Brecht

  Forever, Wheels, Mills

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.252, Grove Press

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• A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Philosophy, Order

  Bertolt Brecht (1983). “Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht”, Plume Books

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• Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fighting, Doe, May

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• I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Knows, Every Man

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• Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Hatred, Features

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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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Peace, War

  Bertolt Brecht (1963). “Plays”

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• Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Sweet, Musical, Schoenberg

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• Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Dwelling, People, Tools

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• Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Wind, Storm

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.288, Taylor & Francis

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• The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Bertolt Brecht, Erich Fried (1979). “Poems”

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• Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Sad, Gone

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Doe, Helping, Praying

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

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