If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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The fate of man is man.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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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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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.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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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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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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