Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
BERTOLT BRECHTGo make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Life is short and so is money.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Right is its own defense.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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Only bad generals need heroes.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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