Bertolt Brecht Quotes

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• Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak…
• As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
• Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
• I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor…
• 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,…
• Everyone needs help from everyone.
• Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
• Don't tell me peace has broken out.
• One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
• I don't trust him. We're friends.
• Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another?
• 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…
• If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.
• Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
• He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
• Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
• ...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
• I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.
• Eats first, morals after.

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