With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the pork chops, then morality
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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