War is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHTBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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