He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is the wish to give, not to receive.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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