Temptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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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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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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