Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
BERTOLT BRECHT…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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