Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
BERTOLT BRECHTImpact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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