Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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