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.
BERTOLT BRECHTSome 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?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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