Right is its own defense.
BERTOLT BRECHTTo live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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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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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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First the pork chops, then morality
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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