Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHTGrub first, then ethics.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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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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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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