Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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