If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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?
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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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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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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