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 BRECHTEven 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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One must live well to know what living is.
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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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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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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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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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