I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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.
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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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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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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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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