There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHTGrub first, then ethics.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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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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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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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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