Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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