If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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