The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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Eats first, morals after.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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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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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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