If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTEven 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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The fate of man is man.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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