When you name yourself, you always name another.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who understand everything get no stories.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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