Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
BERTOLT BRECHTAll artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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But something’s missing.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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