Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHTOnly bad generals need heroes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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Right is its own defense.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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