If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you sad as well as wise.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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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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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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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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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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