Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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First the grub, then the morals.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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