Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHTCome in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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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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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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