None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTSpring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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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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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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First the pork chops, then morality
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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