The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTDo not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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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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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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But something’s missing.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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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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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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