Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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 don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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