Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
BERTOLT BRECHTIntelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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