Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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