Why be a man when you can be a success?
BERTOLT BRECHTUnfortunate the country that needs heroes!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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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 finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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