When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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But something’s missing.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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