Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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First the grub, then the morals.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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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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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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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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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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