What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTLife is short and so is money.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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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 more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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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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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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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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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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