If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHTOnly bad generals need heroes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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