Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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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 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.
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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, what’s left tastes bitter.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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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 to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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