If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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