Why be a man when you can be a success?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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