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.
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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But something’s missing.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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