Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHTSuppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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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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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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