Bertolt Brecht
German - Austrian writer
Lived from: 1898 - 1956
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Germany
Born: 10 february 1898 Died: 14 august 1956
Quotes 21 till 40 of 72.
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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.Poems, 1913-1956― Bertolt Brecht -
Grub first, then ethics.
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He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
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High above the lake a bomber flies.
From the rowing boats
Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
They appear like young starlings, their beaks
Wide open for food.Poems, 1913-1956 This Summers Sky [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (195― Bertolt Brecht -
I don't trust him. We're friends.
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I see with sympathy
The swollen veins on his brow, showing
How exhausting it is to be evil.The Mask of Evil― Bertolt Brecht -
If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line.
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In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.Poems, 1913-1956 Motto to the Svendborg Poems [Motto der Svendborge― Bertolt Brecht -
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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!The Exception and the Rule― Bertolt Brecht -
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.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
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Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.
The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest.Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193― Bertolt Brecht -
Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!
Heavenly distensions of our throats!
Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!
Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.Poems, 1913-1956 Those days of my youth [O, Ihr Zeiten meiner Jugen― Bertolt Brecht -
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
Poems, 1913-1956 Song about my mother [Lied von meiner Mutter], fro― Bertolt Brecht -
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear And he keeps it out of sight.
The Threepenny Opera prologue― Bertolt Brecht -
On golden chairs
Sitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chanted
To those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tears
And for comforting all those whom you had wounded.Poems, 1913-1956 Song of the cut-price poets [Lied der preiswerten― Bertolt Brecht -
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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