Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Right is its own defense.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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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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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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But something’s missing.
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