Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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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Right is its own defense.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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First the pork chops, then morality
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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