The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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But something’s missing.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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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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