What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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