When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is the wish to give, not to receive.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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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One must live well to know what living is.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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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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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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But something’s missing.
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