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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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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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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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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