If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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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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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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