If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the pork chops, then morality
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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But something’s missing.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Right is its own defense.
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