The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
BERTOLT BRECHTWith drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Right is its own defense.
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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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First the pork chops, then morality
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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