The fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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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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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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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?
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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