The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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