Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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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!
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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