It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
BERTOLT BRECHTMixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Eats first, morals after.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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