If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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