General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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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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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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Some 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?
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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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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First the pork chops, then morality
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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