We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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But something’s missing.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Right is its own defense.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Eats first, morals after.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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