He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Eats first, morals after.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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