Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHTYoung 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?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Right is its own defense.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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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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