When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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