Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
BERTOLT BRECHTOn thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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