None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTGreat sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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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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