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.
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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Right is its own defense.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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