The fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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.
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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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