It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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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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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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