Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you sad as well as wise.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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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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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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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 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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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