People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the praying does no good, insurance does help.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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But something’s missing.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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