You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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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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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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