It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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.
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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?
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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