Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
BERTOLT BRECHTTheir peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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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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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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