Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
BERTOLT BRECHTThings take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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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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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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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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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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