Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
BERTOLT BRECHTSome 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?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Eats first, morals after.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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 finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Life is short and so is money.
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