Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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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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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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The fate of man is man.
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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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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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First the pork chops, then morality
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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