What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTYou have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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Life is short and so is money.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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