The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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