Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTLife is short and so is money.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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