What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the pork chops, then morality
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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