People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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