Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
BERTOLT BRECHTLife is short and so is money.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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