Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Bertolt Brecht

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People who understand everything get no stories.

Bertolt Brecht

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The 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.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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people are taken much too seriously. one equals no one. anything less than two hundred at a time is not worth mentioning. of course, anybody can be of a different opinion. an opinion is of no consequence whatever. any level-headed man can level headedly adopt two or three different opinions.

Bertolt Brecht


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unhappily, my wife is expecting me in connection with a fish

Bertolt Brecht


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When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?

Bertolt Brecht


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Las revoluciones se producen en los callejones sin salida.
Cuando la verdad es demasiado débil para defenderse y tiene que pasar al ataque.

Bertolt Brecht


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Why be a man when you can be a success.

Bertolt Brecht

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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Bertolt Brecht


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