You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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