Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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