If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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