When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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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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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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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 can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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