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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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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But something’s missing.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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