Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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