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.
BERTOLT BRECHTEven 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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Grub first, then ethics.
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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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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