When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Right is its own defense.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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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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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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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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The fate of man is man.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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