There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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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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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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