There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is the wish to give, not to receive.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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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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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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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 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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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