If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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One must live well to know what living is.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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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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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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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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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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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