The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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But something’s missing.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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