It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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