If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhy be a man when you can be a success?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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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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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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