You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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First the grub, then the morals.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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