For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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