Only bad generals need heroes.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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