In the contradiction lies the hope.
BERTOLT BRECHTBank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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