The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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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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