When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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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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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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