One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
BERTOLT BRECHTSome 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?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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Eats first, morals after.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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