One must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhy be a man when you can be a success?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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