Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
BERTOLT BRECHTWar is like love, it always finds a way.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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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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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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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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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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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