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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?

Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht's Popular Quotes

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

- Bertolt Brecht

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

- Bertolt Brecht

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

- Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

- Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

- Bertolt Brecht

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

- Bertolt Brecht

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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For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

- Bertolt Brecht

First the pork chops, then morality

- Bertolt Brecht
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