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.
BERTOLT BRECHTGreat sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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But something’s missing.
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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