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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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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The fate of man is man.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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