For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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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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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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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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