When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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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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Right is its own defense.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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