There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHTOf 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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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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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Life is short and so is money.
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