The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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The fate of man is man.
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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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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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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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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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