There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
BERTOLT BRECHTCome in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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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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