Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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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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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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