What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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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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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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