What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Right is its own defense.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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