What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTRight is its own defense.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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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 the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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