Only bad generals need heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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