Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s never too late for those whose time has come.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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